Safe Haven Sussex CIC

Offering a safe home, support and hope for the future.

Safe Haven Sussex is a Community Interest Company.

We are a non profit organisation set up to provide temporary accommodation with care and support for single individuals between the ages of 18 – 65 who have low support needs in Brighton, Hove and surrounding areas.

We support vulnerable adults, including veterans and where needed, we provide women-only properties.

We place great emphasis on our ‘MOVE-ON STRATEGY’ geared towards helping with the transitional steps of moving from temporary accommodation to privately rented accommodation, with training and workshops to enhance life skills, enabling individuality and independence. Our mission is to offer a safe home with support and hope for the future.

Our primary goal is to provide services to enable our clients to turn their situation around, to sustain a healthy life, to gain employment and to move on to privately rented accommodation.

Accommodation and Support

We provide accommodation and support to individuals in the local communities, providing a safe place for them to recover and gain life skills to enable them to move on to independence in the community.

Community Support Services

Support clients to engage with community support services, to aid in their progression and to ensure a holistic approach is used. Safe Haven Sussex CIC will work closely with the local authorities.

Confidence Building

To provide them with the opportunity to gain confidence, and work with them to set achievable goals that will help them to attain the skills they need to go on to employment and independent living in the community, and successfully feeling as a valued member of that community.

Health and Wellbeing

Support given to register with a GP to ensure their health and wellbeing is addressed.

COMING IN FROM THE COLD

We aim to support people holistically, assessing their individual needs and working with them to ensure that a future of independent living and employment is within their reach.

We enable our clients to recover and move on by :

Providing individual key work sessions with an assigned Support Worker to ensure consistency and therefore facilitate trust.

Working with community services in partnership to ensure that a holistic approach is taken for each individual who is engaging in the service.

Working with the local authority to ensure that housing benefit applications are undertaken as speedily as possible to ensure that the individual is provided with accommodation as soon after assessment as possible.

Providing emergency accommodation when needed.

ONE STEP AT A TIME…

Get safe

Stay safe
Feel safe
Be safe

Support

Vulnerable adults
Veterans
Women-only homes

Holistic

Offering a whole-person approach
Assessing individual needs

Counselling

Life skills
Key work sessions
Thinking skills

Workshops

Practical workshops
Fun Workshops

Back to Work

Move on
Independent living

Health and wellbeing

Support given to register with a GP

Progress

One step at a time
To independent living

LATEST NEWS FROM SAFE HAVEN SUSSEX

We are currently looking for Landlords and Letting Agents with an interest in helping the local community, whilst still getting full market rent for their properties. All rents and deposits guaranteed, properties needed in the Brighton, Hove and surrounding Areas.

Not having a home can make it harder for individuals to find a job, stay healthy and maintain relationships.

More than one in three families in England are a monthly pay packet away from losing their homes, according to research by Shelter.

The housing charity found that 37% of working families would be unable to cover their housing costs for more than a month if one partner lost their job.

Campbell Robb, the chief executive of Shelter, said:

These figures are a stark reminder that sky-high housing costs are leaving millions of working families stretched to breaking point and barely scraping by from one pay cheque to the next

The charity is calling for an improved welfare safety net to prevent families where someone loses a job from “hurtling towards homelessness”.